The Complete Newgate Calendar. 5 Vols.

Approx. xvi + 335 pp. per volume. Black cloth with Newgate cover vignette, gilt; gilt-ruled and decorated spine; top edge gilt; bookmark sewn in. Illustrated with engravings. Front free endpapers slightly browned from binding materials; otherwise a gloriously bright set with djs fully intact and clean, showing only minor nicks overall and a small chip to head of spine of v.1 dj. Comprises Captain Charles Johnson’s “General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen…” &c. (1734); Captain Alexander Smith’s “Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen…” &c. (1719); “The Tyburn Chronicle” (1768); “The Malefactor’s Register” (1796); George Borrow’s “Celebrated Trials” (1825); “The Newgate Calendar” by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin (1826); Camden Pelham’s “Chronicle of Crime” (1841), and appendices by the editors. Publised in an edition of 2000.